Best Compression Methods for 'Specific' Games. Q&A

[drcool]

hello! what am I missing for serious sam 2? i have seen other people get 2.2 GB, but my testing below shows a different size:
xtool+srep+lzma - 2.72 GB
also, a quick edit, i tried the same exact method listed on the index that was for serious sam 3 on here, but i get nowhere close to 3.3 GB, why?

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by drcool

hello! what am I missing for serious sam 2? i have seen other people get 2.2 GB, but my testing below shows a different size:
xtool+srep+lzma - 2.72 GB
also, a quick edit, i tried the same exact method listed on the index that was for serious sam 3 on here, but i get nowhere close to 3.3 GB, why?

xtool+srep+lolz

[drcool]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

xtool+srep+lolz

2.50 gb now, i don't get it.

[:( Sad8669]

Originally Posted by drcool

2.50 gb now, i don't get it.

Please make sure that you are using the correct parameters.
I ain't got that much experience, but recently played with the tools and the results were good. And try using Knight Compressor since it has built in options for parameters.

[drcool]

Originally Posted by :( Sad8669

Please make sure that you are using the correct parameters.
I ain't got that much experience, but recently played with the tools and the results were good. And try using Knight Compressor since it has built in options for parameters.

I am using Knight Compressor...I am using the highest parameters for xtool and lolz/srep and I still get that.

[:( Sad8669]

Originally Posted by drcool

I am using Knight Compressor...I am using the highest parameters for xtool and lolz/srep and I still get that.

Make sure that the version of your game matches with the one in the INDEX.
Parameters doesn't need to be high all the time, makes decompression slower. They should be the same as the one mentioned in the INDEX.

[Masquerade]

Yakuza 6

srep+lolz on everything except *.usm and *.awb in which case use srep+lzma

Ripped vf5end.usm (credits video).

Final size: 28GB

You can use lolz on the audio/videos for size decrease but with this amount of data it will take hours for not much of a tradeoff.

[Masquerade]

You see, with srep stdin I get:

  ERROR! Input file is larger than filesize spe  5.5%
  5.5%
Errorlevel=3

ERROR: write error (disk full?) in compression algorithm srep

Now, I did run last night , xtool+srep+lolz but the archive was broken so I am going again.

EDIT 2: After looking at srep command line, I'd need to use -s param to set the input size for stdin to something like 50GB in ordedr to not get this error, am surprised I didn't know this earlier.